After one of the deadliest mass shootings in the history of the United States of America, citizens are yet again torn on the issue of gun control. On Wednesday, Feb. 14, the fire alarm at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, was activated and gunshots rang out as a previous student began a […]

Louisiana possesses the greatest percentage of locally-born residents throughout the United States, revealing that Louisiana is the least regionally-diverse state in the nation. According to a 2012 statistical study performed by The New York Times, 79% of Louisiana residents were born locally in Louisiana, where they have maintained residency all their lives. If possible, students […]

Today (Dec. 14), the FCC votes on a repeal of Net Neutrality, a set of regulations for internet service providers (ISPs), the companies that provide internet access to millions of Americans. The regulations prevent ISPs from selectively blocking, slowing or charging higher fees for its services. Many oppose Net Neutrality because its regulations entangle the […]

Two months after the Weinstein accusations, we are learning that our highest ranking elected officials are not as clean as the virtues they preach. Three of the most prominent men in D.C. that have been accused of sexual assault are senatorial candidate Roy Moore (R-AL), Senator Al Franken (D-MN), and Congressman John Conyers (D-MI). As […]

“However (political parties) may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines […]

(CONVENT, La.) Each year, St. Paul’s juniors are offered the opportunity to attend Manresa House of Retreats, a retreat center in Convent, Louisiana, on the Mississippi River. This year, the mostly-silent retreat was led by Campus Minister Jeff Ramon. When we got off the bus, we were all surprised by the size of the retreat […]

The dramatic escalation of mass shootings in the United States in the past 15 years has caused a drastic desensitization to violence and death chiefly among younger generations who have only grown up to know this horrendous reality of shootings becoming commonplace. Mass killings and gun violence have been existent on U.S. soil for years; […]

(LUMBERTON, Texas) A few weeks ago, a St. Paul’s mother, Denise Sheffield, decided to lead a mission trip to help people whose homes had been ravaged by Hurricane Harvey. We were going to go to Lumberton, Texas, which happened to be where Mrs. Sheffield previously lived and went to church, so the city held a […]

As a senior starting the last leg of my journey through high school, I have to look at the next big step in a young person’s life: college. And let’s be honest, there are a lot of colleges in the United States, 2,354 to be exact. That’s a lot of choices for a student to […]